A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Yarmouth in Canada. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.2214 West, latitude 43.4711 North, depth = 5 km. Unique identifier: us200063a5. Ids that are associated to the event: us200063a5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/06/16 / 2016-06-09 20:42:54 / June 9, 2016 @ 8:42 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:42:54 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yarmouth (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Yarmouth (c. 7 500 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km SSW of Yarmouth, Canada.
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